Dwight E. Lemon
Home Town: Indianapolis, IN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dwight E. Lemon, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, November 8, 1918. When his comrades, many of whom were wounded, were suffering from want of water, Private Lemon took their canteens and went 200 meters to the rear under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, where he filled the canteens at a spring and returned through the intense fire under direct observation of machine-gunners and snipers.